{"id":21639,"date":"2018-03-06T01:22:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T01:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/03\/06\/north-korean-dictator-seoul-envoys-have-openhearted-talk\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:05:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:05:36","slug":"north-korean-dictator-seoul-envoys-have-openhearted-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/03\/06\/north-korean-dictator-seoul-envoys-have-openhearted-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean dictator, Seoul envoys have &#8216;openhearted talk&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SEOUL, South Korea \u2014 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has held <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/02\/25\/north-korean-envoy-in-south-opens-door-to-us-talks\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">an \u201copenhearted talk\u201d in Pyongyang<\/a> with envoys for South Korean President Moon Jae-in, the North said Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s the first time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/02\/27\/trump-sees-talks-with-north-korea-only-under-right-conditions\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">South Korean officials have met with the young North Korean leade<\/a>r in person since he took power after his dictator father\u2019s death in late 2011 \u2014 and the latest sign that the Koreas are trying to mend ties after a year of repeated North Korean weapons tests and threats of nuclear war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North Korea\u2019s state media said Kim expressed his desire to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/02\/14\/admiral-says-north-korea-aiming-to-reunify-korean-peninsula\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cwrite a new history of national reunification\u201d<\/a> during a dinner Monday night that Seoul said lasted about four hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given the robust history of bloodshed, threats and animosity on the Korean Peninsula, there is considerable skepticism over whether the Koreas\u2019 apparent warming relations will lead to lasting peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North Korea, some believe, is trying to use improved ties with the South to weaken U.S.-led international sanctions and pressure, and to provide domestic propaganda fodder for Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But each new development also raises the possibility that the rivals can use the momentum from the good feelings created during North Korea\u2019s participation in the South\u2019s Pyeongchang Winter Olympics last month to ease a standoff over North Korea\u2019s nuclear ambitions and restart talks between Pyongyang and Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"556\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18064351610576.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18064351610576.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18064351610576.jpg.jpg?resize=300,163 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18064351610576.jpg.jpg?resize=768,417 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In this photo provided by South Korea Presidential Blue House via Yonhap News Agency, Kim Yong Chol, vice chairman of North Korea&#8217;s ruling Workers&#8217; Party Central Committee, second from right, talks with South Korean delegation in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, March 5, 2018.  Envoys for South Korean President Moon Jae-in, led by Moon&#8217;s national security director, Chung Eui-yong, are on a rare two-day visit to Pyongyang that\u2019s expected to focus on how to ease a standoff over North Korea\u2019s nuclear ambitions and restart talks between Pyongyang and Washington. (South Korea Presidential Blue House\/Yonhap via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The North Korean report sought to make Kim look statesmanlike as he welcomed the visiting South Koreans, with Kim offering views on \u201cactivating the versatile dialogue, contact, cooperation and exchange.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was also said to have given \u201cimportant instruction to the relevant field to rapidly take practical steps for\u201d a summit with Moon, which the North proposed last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moon, a liberal who is keen to engage the North, likely wants to visit Pyongyang. But he must first broker better ties between the North and Washington, which is Seoul\u2019s top ally and its military protector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The role of a confident leader welcoming visiting, and lower-ranking, officials from the rival South is one Kim clearly relishes. Smiling for cameras, he posed with the South Koreans and presided over what was described as a \u201cco-patriotic and sincere atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many in Seoul and Washington will want to know if, the rhetoric and smiling images notwithstanding, there\u2019s any possibility that Kim will negotiate over the North\u2019s breakneck pursuit of an arsenal of nuclear missiles that can viably target the U.S. mainland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The North has repeatedly and bluntly stated that it will not give up its nuclear bombs. It also hates the annual U.S.-South Korean war games that were postponed because of the Olympics but will likely happen later this spring. And to achieve its nuclear aims, the North probably has to resume the testing of missiles and bombs that has set the region on edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photos distributed by the North showed a beaming Kim dressed in a dark Mao-style suit and holding hands with Moon\u2019s national security director, Chung Eui-yong, the leader of the 10-member South Korean delegation. Chung\u2019s trip is the first known high-level visit by South Korean officials to the North in about a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The South Korean delegates plan to hold a follow-up meeting with North Korean officials on Tuesday before returning home, but it\u2019s unclear if Kim Jong Un will be there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kim was said to have expressed at the dinner his \u201cfirm will to vigorously advance the north-south relations and write a new history of national reunification by the concerted efforts of our nation to be proud of in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is speculation that better inter-Korean ties could pave the way for Washington and Pyongyang to talk about the North\u2019s nuclear weapons. The United States, however, has made clear that it doesn\u2019t want empty talks and that all options, including military measures, are on the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Previous warming ties between the Koreas have come to nothing amid North Korea\u2019s repeated weapons tests and the North\u2019s claims that the annual U.S.-South Korean war games are a rehearsal for an invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before leaving for Pyongyang, Chung said he would relay Moon\u2019s hopes for North Korean nuclear disarmament and a permeant peace on the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chung\u2019s delegation includes intelligence chief Suh Hoon and Vice Unification Minister Chun Hae-sung. The South Korean presidential Blue House said the high-profile delegation is meant to reciprocate the Olympic trip by Kim Jong Un\u2019s sister, Kim Yo Jong, who became the first member of the North\u2019s ruling family to come to South Korea since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kim Yo Jong, who also attended Monday\u2019s dinner, and other senior North Korean officials met with Moon during the Olympics, conveyed Kim Jong Un\u2019s invitation to visit Pyongyang and expressed their willingness to hold talks with the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the Pyongyang trip, Chung\u2019s delegation is scheduled to fly to the United States to brief officials about the outcome of the talks with North Korean officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump has said talks with North Korea will happen only \u201cunder the right conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Moon accepts Kim\u2019s invitation to visit Pyongyang it would be the third inter-Korean summit talk. The past two summits, one in 2000 and the other in 2007, were held between Kim\u2019s late father, Kim Jong Il, and two liberal South Korean presidents. 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